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The Prehistory of Chaotic Economic Dynamics

In: Contemporary Economic Issues

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  • J. Barkley Rosser

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Chaotic dynamics were defined in the mathematical literature in the 1960s and 1970s (Smale, 1963; Sharkovsky, 1964; Oseledec, 1968; Li and Yorke, 1975) after a long prior development (Guckenheimer and Holmes, 1983; Rosser, 1991, ch. 2) dating from the late nineteenth century. The phenomenon was studied in meteorology (Lorenz, 1963), physics (Ruelle and Takens, 1971) and biology (May, 1974) before it was in economics. Indeed, it was the biologist Robert May (1976) who first suggested possible applications in economics, suggestions that were followed in several of the earliest of such studies, especially in business cycle theory by Benhabib and Day (1980 and 1982) and Stutzer (1980), although the earliest explicit model of chaotic economic dynamics in Cournot—Nash duopoly dynamics (Rand, 1978) was not influenced by May. Since then the phenomenon of chaotic dynamics and related concepts of complex dynamics have become increasingly influential throughout economic thought.

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  • J. Barkley Rosser, 1999. "The Prehistory of Chaotic Economic Dynamics," International Economic Association Series, in: Murat R. Sertel (ed.), Contemporary Economic Issues, chapter 10, pages 207-224, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-14540-9_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14540-9_10
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